Stencyl.com Website Review

Publish iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux & Flash games without code GAME STUDIO IN A BOX Stencyl isn't your average game creation software; it's a gorgeous, intuitive toolset that accelerates your workflow and then gets out of the way. We take care of the essentials, so you can focus on what's With extensive platform support, you can rest as*ured that all players will have access to your game. Today, Stencyl supports: have been sponsored by major publishers such as ArmorGames, Kongregate and Newgrounds. THE BEST DRAG & DROP INTERFACE Our drag-and-drop gameplay designer pays homage to the successful MIT Scratch project. We extend Scratch's simple block-snapping interface with new functionality and hundreds of ready-to-use blocks. WRITE CODE IF YOU WANT Power users can create and share their own blocks, extend the engine through code, import libraries and write their own custom clas*es that interact seamlessly with block-based Behaviors. If you're used to graphics editors like Photoshop, you'll feel right at home in the Scene Designer. Familiar features, such as a selection tool, zooming, grid-snapping and flood fill, will help you quickly craft complex worlds out of Actors, Tiles and Terrain. Drop in graphics from your computer to create Actors on the fly. Then use Stencyl's Actor Editor to tweak your Actors' appearances, behaviors and physical properties, and to get them ready for showtime. Bringing your game to the App Store, Google Play or alternate stores like Steam is the best way to make money and reach millions of players. Our best games have brought in enough to allow their developers to quit their jobs and create games full-time. Games can embed ads as a primary or secondary source revenue. We support iAds and AdMob for mobile games while web games can use Newgrounds. A larger variety of networks (including ad mediation) are supported through extensions Games that wish to adopt a freemium model can use in-game purchases to provide unlockable levels & content while offering part (or all) of